political blood leaves president mikheil saakashvili his government battered with the opposition back a blow georgian dream looking set to end the decade averting concert domination. syria's foreign minister points the finger of blame at rebel friendly states that he says are backing terrorism in the country and he finds spike a barrage of criticism of the do are. also nato secretary general considers an early troop withdrawal from afghanistan i mean that's the insider attacks and driving. profiting from paul that's the rising jobless rates and homelessness in britain and leave the destitute prayed for human

trafficking bring. international news life from moscow this is an see with me thanks for joining us it's no longer just a dream for george's opposition with president saakashvili is ruining united national movement policy showing unprecedented a weakness in yesterday's parliamentary elections vote counting is still ongoing the opposition mega block georgian dream so far has a solid lead but big trees far from a done deal almost top of all and piece out directly elected rather than from party lists that is where the ruling party hopes to come to lies however if the numbers hold it will be an unprecedented blow to sign the sri nice party whose dominance has been eroded by a series of corruption and brutality scandals that exceed your shop skinner reports

from the capital well the opposition has already been celebrating. then wood has not yet been confirmed but supporters of the georgia opposition started celebrating their victory ever since the exit poll results came out suggesting that the green party could win the parliament elections georgia with fifty one percent of the votes in the favor of thousands have been gathering in the central seat of the central square billy seat with people very jubilant about their possible victory and the first preliminary results which were released by the georgian central by the georgian central election commission suggested that this victory may well be on the right certainly this election is very important for georgia because the party or the alliance the party which wins the majority in parliament will then be able to appoint prime minister and according to the constitutional changes in georgia which are taking effect in next year when the what reza sayah is to step down

a prime minister will have just about the same powers as the president so the party which will gain the majority will basically have to adjust future in its hands hence the celebration of the supporters of the opposition because they already believe that their parts will be able to appoint the prime minister and thus can sell georgia for the next five seven yes something like this was unimaginable in the member last year when one businessman ivanishvili launched his georgia dream party saying that his main rest the house against me and to change the system back then the support of the ruling party was over seventy percent and it was this it had no chance at all from beating in this election bad things changed dramatically after the footage of prison abuse and torture was released in september in georgia causing massive public outcry thousands took to the streets in protest last saturday we saw the huge the biggest political rally in the history of

modern day georgia with more than one hundred thousand people in the streets voicing. their discontent about the current political establishment and definitely this make this election unpredictable and very interesting and an exam will be keeping us updated on the vote counting and the mood in tbilisi as the day goes on but you can catch up on what's happened so far on his twitter feed. this syrian crisis is the result of a coherent collective effort by foreign states that's the message syria's foreign minister laid down for the un general assembly his trust to the damascus remained open to a political solution to the civil war which is ravaging his homeland but as always he's a marine of course now reports that is not what the u.s. bank rebels i mean full well he. spoke at length about the ongoing

eighteen month civil war taking place in his country he accused the u.s. france turkey saudi arabia and qatar of inducing and aiding terrorism in his country by those countries actually arming financing and supporting the opposition groups in syria he went on to say that the calls that western countries are making for president bashar al assad to step down is not only provoking more bloodshed in his country but he says it's also a believe an interference into syria's domestic affairs he said this success of any international effort in syria would require countries including turkey saudi arabia qatar and libya to stop arming finding in training the syrian opposition and to rather encourage dialogue so the syrian foreign minister will lead all more of course to addressing the world body on the last and final day of the un general

assembly he says that he is calling for a political solution and syrian led dialogue to agree on a roadmap to a more poor poor respect and democratic syria but we heard u.s. president barack obama first call for. president bashar al assad to step down and then his sentiments were act. by britain and by france just as the u.s. he says stood by supported and helped liberate the people in libya he would like to see this same thing done in syria but on the other hand you have many other countries such as russia china brazil and so on and so forth saying that there can't be any outside intervention into what's taking place in syria this is a crisis that needs to be decided in between the parties between the syrian government and the opposition but as as we've been reporting for the past week

everybody's talking about the crisis in syria but not clear how to exactly solve it . under international law professor caroline says that syrians would never inflict such destruction on the homeland on the funks that foreign forces are involved in the war runs against the un charter. if we are to believe the report of the. b. and b. . the respectable european and the german. intelligence service one of the was a respectable program in the world. five percent only five percent of the armed opposition are syrian and the others are mercenaries coming from the outside this is a huge violation of international law of the sovereignty of the distortion of the reason for which the. uprising had taken place and these people are funded by outside. apparently some private beneficiary from the government.

this is a matter that is that leaves a huge question mark for the peace and stability of the world order and if syria would become a failed state and i think it is the most likely scenario and will have the fundamentalist ruling in parts of syria this will be a huge headache to everyone to the whole world. still coming out in the program no rules for whistleblowers these soldiers are revealed to us violence in iraq and afghanistan is being denied their right to swift trial his lawyer demands all charges be dropped saying the case is taking twice as long to build as the empire state building. has later but now an agency chief has admitted as the alliance's withdrawal from afghanistan could come earlier than expected the statement comes on the heels of a spate of at times that broad coalition casualties to two thousand insider attacks

on western soldiers are taking their toll on the troops' morale saying the secretary general and they have also affected nature afghan relations as their alliance prepares to hand security responsibilities to local forces and middle east academic admin to go read from the american. if i think washington believes nato is gone i have been and they miss me and they miss he appointed. well first of all there are there is the issue of the difficulty of trying to impose order and or a certain kind of order by foreign powers on afghanistan but other part of it has to do also with the policies which have been pursued by nato in afghanistan these policies have not really transformed they question on the ground they have not greatly improved the lives of bad people and they have not contributed to building up afghan infrastructure as some had promised more importantly i think what we are

seeing is that there is plans from afghan population which certain extent is reflected by the counter attacks from taliban and its allies there is a great deal of resentment against that tax by drones which have led to the death so many many innocent civilians and afghanistan even the afghan president himself karzai has called on nato to curb these efforts and stop them because they are ending up killing a lot of innocents and creating a great deal of anger and pattern isn't powered nato. discontent with the conflict is also bringing in the u.k. this hour we hear from the british on piano was bond from the house of commons where his fiery speech. is be prolonged by those that have the indeed canada that brought their troops home two years ago so the netherlands

fringe new zealand is a coming out early absolutely no reason why you shouldn't bring our troops home now the only reason is that we tied in with the politics of the united states we don't need independent state we have to. remind ourselves of that we can take decisions and what we're going to see in the future is deepening trouble they'll be more slaughter because of this whole or this fictitious fictitious aims of the war we seen to collapse. it's no secret that in times of hardship there are those who can capitalize on this suffering and britain is no different to new figures show incidents of slavery and human trafficking are searching lower smiths now reports on just how easy it is to the desperate into a life of servitude. here. to be able to do it

right there in the underbelly in which the vulnerable are exploited by the other group and it's getting the police and home with terrorists is there reporting abroad in human trafficking to the u.k. and the targeting of homeless people who are then forced to work with little or no pay the passives day center in london's victoria is the city's biggest voluntary day and so for the homeless today its clients are regularly targeted by gangs both at the center and when they congregate at mobile food banks. what tends to happen is that people are given a promise. is never really fulfilled so the most recent one we how it was someone was approached just outside this very building. where they were told that they could be taken to belgium to get free accommodation food they would tend to apply

perhaps a dependency issues so someone's clearly been drinking the same way we will supply you with drink and we give you lots of work. luckily we were able to intervene on the other coalition but what time stopped going is when people get there the reality is in some cases it can be a lot more to die in prison. in many cases the homeless are offered alcohol as a reward all told their families back home will be harmed if they talk about what happened to them and pases there are many and varied a track to work in factories that inform the prof england that his wages were paid to the gang. of fifty one year old man who would probably work at the let him in the. black hole into a petty crime and to break it here. police say a mob should be exploitation appears to be done by organized gangs and they are getting more successful territories of reports of thirty seven instances of slave

labor this year up from twenty two last year a rise of more than seventy percent that also aware of the gang that traffics people from a town in lithuania as often as twice a week. and. one very high profile facebook me saying as mild zuckerberg visits russia prime minister dmitry medvedev has a history of getting top notch gifts from his guests find out whether facebook's founder can match the best of the rest. of us it's a man's world saudi arabia airbrushes a woman from the catalogue of the world's largest furniture retailer ikea discover why.

the lawyer for whistle blowing u.s. soldier bradley manning has demanded all charges be dropped his as manning's case is being deliberately were attracted the trial will only start in february while according to u.s. court martial rules it should have begun over two years ago his christian for visitor the latest event supporting their whistleblower. his name. has evolved into a movement a movement with a mission to truth as the points. may be on utopia maybe an idealist state. or a strange world fighting for those who attended the event hope to eventually see accused wiki leaks or bradley manning freed from prison he's already spent eight hundred sixty two days there much of it in solitary confinement and still has not gone to trial we are here because the truth is on trial bradley is not a traitor. he's not a spark but

a truth teller and it was simple former national security agency executive thomas drake is a whistleblower as well like manning charged by the government under the espionage act he revealed information to a reporter with the baltimore sun that the n.s.a. was spying on u.s. citizens he was later found innocent freedom is extraordinarily precious he was a featured speaker along with the government accountability project director jesselyn radack manning friend and co-founder of the bradley manning support network david house duty author and soccer fox and journalist chris hedges and others. were. who matter what anyone feels about it probably many everyone in america would reach for it's whistleblowing it's of course transparency bradley manning is an example of a young soldier or theories alleged to have blown the whistle so there are kids everywhere surely you have a good opinion of the young man and the point of the events to raise awareness in court but also to raise money donations book sales someone even donated

a bottle of wine in california a white holds true for everything raised here will go to the bradley manning defense fund ever since nine eleven i've been concerned that our civil liberties are in jeopardy and it's pretty obvious that. this is where i came from massachusetts to. here in support of several georgetown law students and professors attended the event many knew very little about manning beforehand i learned more than take more knowledge and i came here with it's very important for me to be here to see a lot of faith with a whistle blower's. to have a good discussion here i discussion about a young man his future and the future of a country's laws and legacy. in washington christine frees our our team. and i medics in bahrain jailed for taking part in pro-democracy demonstrations have

lost their final appeal to tehran rating human rights in the kingdom especially this case has sparked international criticism and. from the country's largest opposition party says the calls have loli and they were pockets. all national but isn't that national but is talking about as not just a sin but the whole judicial process and not that it. was just in the control or. the doors would god job or the torture that these men were not even attending to the. station for their cause and. for so. when it comes to that. people will be in subject of the church. or even killing the court just totally ignoring. it is that guilty. as you will find children

saw these are. just as for this and they had to be in prisons like others even or just expressing their opinions this is the sort of not that it. is some international news in brief you now a pleasure boat has sunk after colliding with passenger ferry of the coast of hong kong leaving at least thirty six people dead over one hundred twenty passengers were on the vessel that was heading to a fireworks display to mark china's national day the ferry was mostly and damaged sailed off after the collision with some reports suggesting its high speed was behind it. and strikes have rocks tunisia's hundred stick to the street and anger over the country's failing economy the bath place of the arab spring has seen rallies against unemployment and perceived government neglect several regions have been paralyzed by strikes held in

support of activists detained during the protests. president of colombia santo's has announced he has accounts but reassured the public it was not dangerous . and will be removed in a few days so their health complications will not affect their historical peace negotiations with the country's marxist a rebel group the fark if successful they will and five decades of conflict. and disparate picture is emerging in an indian region once dubbed the country's breadbasket the floor showing farming community has seemingly given a no drugs with addiction taming almost every part of life there or she is pretty sure it has the story. almost two thousand kilometers from the war zone in afghanistan and women like smith rocor are fighting a battle of their own in punjab india you know how do you know my son lives with me we lost his father to drugs and recently lost his brother to drugs everyone in the

neighborhood is up to you and taking up drugs and if my son or i don't buy them who will cough to the children going in. once known as one of the most prosperous states in india punjab is now one of the biggest drug trafficking hubs in the world officials say most of the confiscated drugs are coming from nearby afghanistan the largest global producer of opium and the situation is getting worse the united nations has reported that opium production has more than doubled in afghanistan since the united states invaded the country in two thousand and one critics say that nato and the united states have not done enough to eradicate the narcotics producing poppy fields which they say is the afghans biggest source of income. is such a culture would lead is such a bankrupt lead used to its condition. trysts so

they are resistant to anything you see the community is hardened it's of so much so they're not going to listen to you if you look nice you know start going to await the drug addiction problem and things obvious becomes so bad that at spirit say that one in three people are actually addicted to drugs and in this area alone people say that seventy percent of the people between the ages of fifteen and thirty five are dicks it's the drugs and that's not good news for these women smithville course community has now become known as the village of widows because of all the men who have died from drug addiction. now many bring their children to this. school where sixteen percent of the six hundred fifty children are orphaned most of their parents died from drug related debts mainly through private donations they are all able to get an education for free but it's little consolation for what

many fear could become a lost generation and if more action against drug trafficking isn't taken again if something happens to my son will happen to the family where. can i bring them up . from the bullets and explosives in afghanistan the people of punjab wonder how they too can escape the war that has started to impact millions of their own preassure either r t india. let's cross over to business desk to get the latest action loreena is that good morning so what do you have in store for us it sounds good more than you know all right now or more that's are in the asian markets because they're the only ones trading right now also if we take a look at the latest figures we see that markets there are rising australian is particularly well and that's ahead of a policy decision by the country's central bank later of the session will of course keep you posted on how that develops they have still made particularly well across

asia and exporters are gaining in japan if move on and take a look at the us markets are closed but we're looking up in monday's session because it always has a major effect on the all the markets and there we saw gains as well and that was particularly after the data show the rise nativity in the us manufacturing sector reaching its highest level in the past four months but the gains were minimized after coleman's bought the us federal reserve chairman ben bernanke which there will be a price many investors move on and take a look at current season of currencies of their boss and their look at the russian markets first and see how this started off there the markets here will open about two hours from now but if you take a look the r.t.s. and the my stocks tracked overseas gains and. and over at super science it was a bit of a currency's now see what's happening with the euro dollar and ruble when it comes to the euro it is gaining against the u.s. dollar strengthening and the ruble gained against a currency basket on monday as i said updated figures coming up in less than two

hours from now actually but i want to stay with her and talk about c.n.n. because the battle for b.p.'s fifty percent stake is now hitting up and it's continuing of course the main contenders is the they are consortium as well as all dried roles that they are has now hard the rothschild group which is set to organize the loan to help they are acquire that fifty percent stake but many analysts believe that they are will end up losing the battle to the oil giant let's take a listen. i do really think. would be able to buy out b.p. is sure it's too much so the only real scenario i think right now it would be discussion really rules new have to buy. from b.p. so rules could become number one in the company in the world as a result of these do potentially but would be very creative for shareholders of

rules and i don't know how to do so. and are you live that's what i have for you this hour but of course real russian markets europe opening up later so lots of things to look forward to. visiting right here and waiting to meet right and have your moment so to speak to a british m.p. who was thrown out of parliament for speaking out in defense of the u.k. soldiers in afghanistan to stay with us. my parents really truly honestly believe what had happened was as a result of my father's exposure to agent orange i was born with multiple problems . i was missing my leg. and my fingers and my big toe on my right foot i use my hands a lot in my artwork i find myself drawing my hands quite a bit to me for my hands you know just as anyone would but

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british member of parliament was recently thrown out of the house of commons after he accused ministers of lying over the military policy in afghanistan paul flynn is with me now but before we talk to him let's just see a clip of the video that got him barred from parliament the role of our brave soldiers of the moment is to act as human shields for ministers' reputation the danger to our soldiers is being prolonged by those on the who have the power to stop it other countries over remove soldiers from this dangerous area where they're

not doing all we're doing which is arming and training our future and to be used to this very similar to the end of the first world war where if we say the politicians lawyers and soldiers died and the reality was as it is no then our brave soldier lives are being led by ministerial donkey's pull through and after that you were disciplined by the speaker and barred from parliament for five days presumably you knew that what happened that you thought it was worth it it's very well worthwhile it's a very rare event and the result has been that my words have been seen almost all over the world as prison extraordinary effect and i believe that this may well be a turning point in public opinion i believe eighty percent of public completed would like to see borys home by christmas and the government in this and they're ignoring him and he's been a longstanding critic of the war in afghanistan so what brought on this specific.